The publication sheds new mild on a miles debated factor within the box of historical historical past: the unfold of Christianity within the Roman Empire and its dating with Judaism within the 2d century. The contributions gathered during this quantity illustrate from a multidisciplinary point of view (including archaeology, cultural, spiritual, and political background) how Christianity chanced on a unusual approach of integrating into the remodeling empire less than Emperor Hadrian. during this manner, Christianity won an expanding position inside Roman society, which eventually opened the door to its confirmation in next centuries.

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. one hundred fifty– 235 CE, was once born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. at the loss of life of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in one hundred eighty to Rome, entered the Senate, and less than the emperor Commodus was once an recommend. He held excessive workplaces, turning into an in depth buddy of numerous emperors.

This e-book addresses the matter of Milton's poetics of the fervour, a practice he revises through turning clear of overdue medieval representations of the crucifixion and drawing as a substitute on prior Christian photographs and replacement suggestions.

Classical authors used either prose and poetry to discover and clarify the flora and fauna. In Aetna and the Moon, Liba Taub examines the range of how within which historical Greeks and Romans conveyed medical details. Oregon country college Press is proud to provide this inaugural quantity within the Horning vacationing students sequence.